Anton van Rooy was a Dutch bass-baritone. He had a voice of enormous proportions and is most remembered for his association with the music dramas of Richard Wagner, especially the Ring Cycle, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and Parsifal.
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![Anton van Rooy as The Wanderer in Wagner's Siegfried (ca. 1906),[1] photo by Aimé Dupont](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Anton_van_Rooy_as_The_Wanderer_in_Siegfried_1906_-_Aim%C3%A9_Dupont.jpg/500px-Anton_van_Rooy_as_The_Wanderer_in_Siegfried_1906_-_Aim%C3%A9_Dupont.jpg)
Musicians born in the 1870s 6
About this person
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1870 to 1932 · aged 62
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